…says Gumi’s comparison of Bandits to Niger Delta Agitator condemnable and inhumane
Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark who recently denied news of his death after being rumored to have died, has blasted the trio of Lai Mohammed, Femi Adesina and Garba Shehu as the three greatest detractions to the President Muhammadu Buhari administration. Chief E K Clark made his remarks in a virtual Zoom meeting attended by Crossfire Reports on Wednesday February 17th 2021.
Chief E K Clark described the trio as detractors of the Buhari administration. In his very words, “In fact, the greatest enemy or detractors of the Buhari Government, who I regarded as first-class gentleman, is this propagandists Lai Mohammed, who is presently serving as Minister of Information, a job some of us had done earlier, Femi Adesina, who behaved as a gentle man when he was Managing Director and Editor in Chief of the Sun Newspaper, who gave me an Award on behalf of the Sun Newspaper, but who now today regard me as very unpatriotic and anti-Buhari; a man who does not think that well-meaning Nigerians who have attained certain ages do not deserve Presidential Congratulatory Message, and the devilish, tribalistic and most dangerous propagandist, Garba Shehu. I can understand why the First Lady demanded for his sack because he is one of those who is misleading her husband.”
On the meeting between Sheik Gumi and Bandits in Zamfara Forest and Gumi’s comparison of Bandits in the Northern part of Nigeria to Niger Delta Agitators in the South, Clark described the comparison as very inhumane and condemnable. He said, *“The case of the Niger Delta agitators, is quite different from the case of these murderous, blood thirsty villains, who have taken up arms against the state, using different names, whether as Boko Haram, bandits, killer herdsmen, kidnappers, etc. What is it they are demanding? Initially we were told that as Boko Haram, they were against western education, they started killing, maiming, and destroying properties. Then they changed and we were told that some of them have changed to answer bandits, and all sorts of names. We are even told by the Government, including Mr. President himself, that they are not Nigerians.”*
Chief E K Clark had earlier described President Buhari as a Perfect gentleman surrounded by detractors. Chief Clark was former Federal Commissioner for Information under the General Yakubu Gowon regime of the late 60s and early 70s.
